The victim was lured from a nightclub through text messages before being driven to an alley in an industrial area where a ...

Margarita Jimenez, 34, was handed an 80-year-to-life prison sentence, while Jorge Garfias, 38, received a 25-year-to-life ...

A Ventura County couple has been sentenced in the murder case of Yanelly Vargas, a former girlfriend of the male suspect.

A California couple was sentenced for the 2024 murder of Yanelly Vargas, with Margarita Jimenez receiving 80 years to life, ...

Prosecutors said Margarita Jimenez’s discovery of texts between her boyfriend and the victim ignited the killing ...

Margarita Jimenez and Jorge Garfias are charged with murder during the commission of a kidnapping. They are accused of killing 35-year-old Yanelly Vargas. Garfias was Vargas' ex-boyfriend and Jimenez ...

A trail of blood and broken acrylic nails helped solve a grisly Ventura County murder, authorities say — culminating Friday in the conviction of a couple for beating and murdering the man's ...

The defense has opened its case in a 2024 Oxnard murder-kidnapping trial with the shooter admitting she killed a rival for her boyfriend's affections but denying it was intentional. "I wasn't thinking ...

Oxnard police have arrested a man and woman on suspicion of murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman on March 17. The suspects, Margarita Jimenez, 33, and Jorge Garfias, 36, were taken ...

A couple has been convicted in a shooting that left a man’s ex-girlfriend dead, California officials said. In March 2024, 38-year-old Jorge Garfias lured his ex-girlfriend, Yanelly Vargas, 30, out ...

A Southern California couple was convicted of murdering a woman who was one of their former lovers. Margarita Jimenez, 34, of Oxnard, and Jorge Garfia, 38, of Ventura, were convicted by a jury of ...

A couple has been convicted in a fatal 2024 shooting, California officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A couple has been convicted in a shooting that left a man’s ex-girlfriend dead, California ...